How do you get a pickaxe on Minecraft survival mode? - Answers

Punch a tree to get a few blocks of wood. Place the wood on your character's crafting slot, to get wooden planks. Make some Sticks by placing Wooden planks in the following configuration, SE SE Where E is an empty space. Next place a wooden plank on each square, to create a crafting table. The crafting table has a larger grid. To make the pickaxe, place wooden sticks and wooden planks in the following configuration, WWW ESE ESE Where W is the wooden plank, S is a stick and E is an empty space. Later, you can make pickaxes by replacing the wooden planks with cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots or diamonds.